Amazon Japan is hiring a Finance Manager for the Finance Operations (FinOps) Business Partnership (BP) team based in Tokyo that owns the end to end Corporate Accounts Payable (A/P) process. Amazon’s Corporate A/P are growing and expanding at a rapid pace resulting in a dynamic work environment with many opportunities. FinOps is one of the core organizations in the Amazon Finance Community. The organization roles up to the VP of Global Finance Operations who directly reports to SVP & CFO of WW Amazon. FinOps consists of a variety of Finance and Accounting operations including technical expertise of financial management. BP is the liaison function between business operations and core F&A expertise including FinOps service center (SC) operations.

Key job responsibilities
This position is primarily the front line of our APAC Corporate A/P operations involved in the monitoring of payments as well as driving end-to-end improvements to such processes. This position will manage projects and collaborate with multiple Amazon businesses and technical owners globally along with day to day operations such as problem-solving and handling inquiries and escalations. The expected tasks in “project” include but not limited to analysis, change management, process improvement, and creation of management information metrics and dashboards. Process improvements cover various areas such as timeliness and accuracy of our payment, vendor satisfaction, free cash flows and controllership. An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding work environment is critical to this role. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, a quick learner, and will have the ability to efficiently manage various high-priority and visible projects and operational tasks.

A day in the life
- Manage any systematic and operational issues during invoice processing
- Support daily execution of vendor payments from Amazon Asia-Pacific entities to vendors globally
- Maintain end to end responsibility of key AP processes and work with technology teams to understand, measure and improve support systems
- Respond to vendors’ and internal inquiries with focus on high customer satisfaction
- Provide controllership for the business teams to ensure that policies and procedures are met
- Liaise with global counter-party to keep up with global initiatives
- Support offshore transactional teams with root cause identification, identifying appropriate remediation and execute on a project plan with appropriate level of urgency
- Serve as a key business partner working directly with business leaders and cross-functional teams, presenting results of ad-hoc business and statistical analysis and recommendations to senior management for optimal decision making
- Compliance and regulatory required projects for the countries in scope
- Maintain project plans, assigning and tracking tasks to respective teams. Locate and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports.
- Exceptional discipline of meeting deadlines while managing multiple projects

About the team
You will be part of a diverse team that continuously drives improvements to reduce defects across the P2P process and improves the experience for our vendors and suppliers. The ideal candidate is proactive, a self-starter and will diligently perform the assigned responsibilities on a consistent basis with minimal step-by-step guidance from management. As we integrate the expertise and optimize the effort to manage on-going process and lead complex project, a strong sense of teamwork is needed.